Purpose: To help you understand the importance of cash flows in the operation of a small business.
You have just received your year-end financial statements from your CPA and you notice one very disturbing item. The net income from your income statement shows $40,000! Your very first thought is €œwhere is it?€ Then you look at your cash balance and see that it decreased $10,000 from last year to this year. You€™re thinking there has to be something wrong here. So you call up your CPA and ask for a meeting to discuss this obvious error. After all, how can you possibly have a positive net income and have your cash balance decrease?
At the meeting, the CPA lays out the financial statements in front of you and begins to explain how this would have happened. The following is a condensed income statement, statement of retained earnings, and balance sheet:

Income statement

Requirement
1. By looking at the three financial statements, can you anticipate what the CPA is going to tell you about why the cash decreased even though you had net income for the year? What changed from 2011 to 2012? Are transactions that affect the income statement the only transactions that affect your cashbalance?

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BCS Consultants, Inc. Statement of Retained Earnings For the Year Ended December 31, 2012 Beginning Retained Earnings Net Income Dividends Paid Ending Retained Earnings $ 91,000 40.000 13,000) 27,000 $118,000 BCS Consultants, Inc. Balance Sheet December 31, 2012 & 2011 2012 2011 Assets Cash Equipment $ 30,000 40,000 146,000 158,000 $188,000 Total Assets Liabilities Notes Payable Bank Stockholder's Equity: Common Stock Retained Earmings $ 50,00075.000 20,000 118.000 20,000 91,000 111,000 $186,000 Total Stockholders' Equity Total Liabilities and Stockholders' Equity BCS Consultants, Inc. Income Statement For the Year Ended December 31,2012 Total Revenue Total Expenses Net Income $150,000 110,000 40,000